An absolutely fascinating article from Arlie Hochschild, whose new book on the American right sounds like a must read:
Traditional Tea Party supporters wanted to cut both the practice of cutting in line, and government rewards for doing so. Followers of Donald Trump, on the other hand, wanted to keep government benefits and remove shame from the act of receiving them – but restrict those benefits, implicitly, to native-born Americans, preferably white.
http://isa-global-dialogue.net/the-american-right-its-deep-story/
Mark Carrigan 